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Mira

@mirasair.myatproto.social

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Hello, I'm Mira. Socialist. Trans woman. She/her. Raised Evangelical Christian, now an atheist. Veteran, but not that proud of it. American, and not that happy about it.

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Mira @mirasair.myatproto.social · Jun 22

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY2o...

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."

"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats

YouTube video by TED-Ed

www.youtube.com

Mira @mirasair.myatproto.social · 2h

this shit is why you don't fit in. Not because you're weird or unattractive or whatever you think your problem is. It's because you're an asshole.

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · Dec 24

We can disagree about what Karl Marx would be if he were alive today.

One thing you have to agree on is that he would have absolutely loved disposable vapes and four Loko

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Disco Elysium Posting @discoposting.bsky.social · Apr 19

Marx was literally neurodivergent & a miner.

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Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 6h

yah Marx was lowkey kinda daddy w/ it fr fr

Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · Apr 19

the Prussian police reports on Karl Marx from 1853 prove that leftists have always had immense Disco Elysium dirtbag energy.

A portrait of Harry DuBois from Disco Elysium as Karl Marx. Excerpts from the 1853 Prussian Secret Police Report on Karl Marx are quoted. They all kind of read like fucked up Pokédex entries:

1. "In private life Marx is an extremely disorderly, cynical human being, and a bad host. He leads the existence of a real Bohemian intellectual."

2. "His large piercing fiery eyes have something demonically sinister about them. However, one can tell at first glance he is a man of genius and energy."

3. "Washing, grooming and changing his linen are things he does rarely, and he likes to get drunk."

4. "He is idle for days on end, but he will work night and day with tireless endurance when he has a great deal of work to do."

5. "He often stays up all night, and then lies down fully clothed on the sofa at midday and sleeps till evening, untroubled by the comings and goings of the whole world."

- Prussian Police Report on Karl Marx, 1853

Mira @mirasair.myatproto.social · 20h

as a veteran

fuck 'em

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lilith kills u @deathcarpets.sisc.one · 20h

Yeah, I'm thinking Arby's

Mira @mirasair.myatproto.social · 20h

i entirely follow you actually. it seems rude but not inaccurate

Mira @mirasair.myatproto.social · 21h

it is only useful in situations where quality and accuracy aren't really very important. So...low grade pornography?

Mira @mirasair.myatproto.social · 1d

Immortality. Humanity is a stupid, beautiful species that is doomed. It deserves to be remembered.

And honestly the far distant future heat death universe isn't that scary to me. Nothing about this says I can't sleep. I will dream forever or until a new universe is born.

Mira @mirasair.myatproto.social · 1d

npr you got my hopes up that this nonsense was finally at an end

Mira @mirasair.myatproto.social · 1d

I'm just gratified that at least someone on their side seems a little humiliated about Trump. If it were me the only thing more embarrassing than being led by Trump would be losing to Trump, which...

Yeah.

That hasn't felt great.

Mira @mirasair.myatproto.social · 1d

you're getting insulted because you're saying incredibly stupid things with absolute confidence. You don't know what you're talking about, you know you don't know what you're talking about, and yet you keep offering your literal nonsense opinion

Mira @mirasair.myatproto.social · 1d

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Mira @mirasair.myatproto.social · 1d

if this is news to you about communism you should probably stop talking about economics or communism at all

Mira @mirasair.myatproto.social · 1d

bsky.app/profile/mira...

Mira @mirasair.myatproto.social · 1d

if this is news to you about communism you should probably stop talking about economics or communism at all

Mira @mirasair.myatproto.social · 1d

if this is news to you about communism you should probably stop talking about economics or communism at all

Mira @mirasair.myatproto.social · 1d

neither are economic systems

Mira @mirasair.myatproto.social · 1d

communism isn't blind uniform distribution of resources, it's from each according to their ability to each according to their need.

Mira @mirasair.myatproto.social · 1d

motherfucker do you think the internet is natural

Mira @mirasair.myatproto.social · 1d

please never speak again

Mira @mirasair.myatproto.social · 1d

Bob Dylan is cool by normal person standards, but he's an artsy dweeb by the Rock Pantheon standard.

Mira @mirasair.myatproto.social · 1d

weren't The Runaways original characters, not kids of established heroes? Aren't their parents all villains?

Mira @mirasair.myatproto.social · 1d

has there ever been a series that really did the kids of the heroes particularly well?

Mira @mirasair.myatproto.social · 1d

there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, so why even try

the kind of leftist who says ACAB at every opportunity but doesn't hesitate to call the cops

Mira @mirasair.myatproto.social · 2d

"Johnny Cash is uncool next to Bob Dylan" is a statement that makes reality feel like its collapsing.

Mira @mirasair.myatproto.social · 2d

because uncreative people don't want to be creative. They don't want to make a film, they don't want to write a book, they don't want to make art. They want to just be a filmmaker, an author, an artist. Art is a means to an end, not the end in itself for them.